LETTER: Gun safety important in hunting season

Published: Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 4:31 p.m.

Dear Editor: Well, it’s hunting season. Time to grab the guns and go out in the woods and get away from our wives for awhile. Most deer hunters try to follow all of Alabama’s hunting laws.

Then, there are ones that just can’t control themselves when it comes to deer hunting. They become raving lunatics. Every hunter knows a few lunatics. They shoot deer from their trucks on public roads. They night hunt, shooting at eyes reflecting in the headlights.

When they are out in the woods, many of them will slip over onto other people’s land. Raving lunatics will shoot dogs, horses, cows and tweety birds. When I was a teenager, my cousin shot the dash of my mother’s car. I saw a man shoot a hawk out of a tree, just to see if he could hit it. (It is against federal law to shoot a hawk or an owl.)

I guess by now you have figured out, back when I wore a younger man’s clothes, I too, was a raving lunatic.

Many people say I am still a little crazy, but not when it comes to guns. When you are hunting with younger people, you have to teach them gun safety and to follow the letter of the law.

<p>Dear Editor: Well, it's hunting season. Time to grab the guns and go out in the woods and get away from our wives for awhile. Most deer hunters try to follow all of Alabama's hunting laws.</p><p>Then, there are ones that just can't control themselves when it comes to deer hunting. They become raving lunatics. Every hunter knows a few lunatics. They shoot deer from their trucks on public roads. They night hunt, shooting at eyes reflecting in the headlights.</p><p>When they are out in the woods, many of them will slip over onto other people's land. Raving lunatics will shoot dogs, horses, cows and tweety birds. When I was a teenager, my cousin shot the dash of my mother's car. I saw a man shoot a hawk out of a tree, just to see if he could hit it. (It is against federal law to shoot a hawk or an owl.)</p><p>I guess by now you have figured out, back when I wore a younger man's clothes, I too, was a raving lunatic.</p><p>Many people say I am still a little crazy, but not when it comes to guns. When you are hunting with younger people, you have to teach them gun safety and to follow the letter of the law.</p>